Battery terminal



Feb. 9, 1932. c. E. HOOVER 1,844,011

' BATTERY TERMINAL Filed Feb. 27, 1928 INVENTOR fiafies Z3 jiaaveo:

Patented Feb. 9, 1932 t 1 44 011;

' UNITED STATES PATENT oFFicE Application filed February 27, 1928. "Serial No. 257,354.

My invention relates to the art of electrical resents the main jaw of the connector which connectors and it particularly has for its 010- s re a ively, fixed and is constituted With a ject to provide certain modifications and imflat f e 2 h ving a male lug 3, a bolt hole provements on the battery terminal that con- 4 passing through the jawl as indicated,

a stitutes the subject matter of my application T jaw 1 has its gripping surface ser- 5.;

for patent filed October l. 1927, Serial No. ed as a 5 nd it is provided with fireh- 223.917 tively rigid flat plate or shank 6 which ex- Further it is an bj ect of the present intends in it (lllCGOillOll at an obtuse angle t0 the vention to provide a cable terminal for flat or plane of the jaws face 2.

1cb id d ground bl The shank or plate 6 is provided at its eX- 0 Other objects are to provide the battery tr' e end With a pair of side lugs 7 and on post clamping faces with gripping corrugits inner face it is provided with teeth 8. tions; to provide that part of th t r i al The teeth 8 are adapted to pass through aperwhich receives the flat cable with toothed and ur in the fiat battery cable 20 hereinafter m l tt d plates between which and by which again referred to and project into the slots 65 the terminal is secured to the cable, to have in t fiiltbendable plate 0r Shank 9. one of the plates bendable so as to enable the I T e plate 9 has its Slots 10 preferably ready placing of the terminal over the end of ch mfered as at 11 So that when the plate 9 the cable and enable the connection thereto to is Cha fered dOWn Onto the Cable with be made in a positive and effective way by the pins 8 projected into the slots 10 the ends 7 o squeezing the bendable plate toward ch ep of the pins niay'b'e'fiattened or riveted over posite relatively fixed plate. and thus lock the plate9 in place as well as Other objects will in part be obvious and securing the cable 20 in a rigid and electri on in part be pointed out hereinafter. Cally good way.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects "The removable jaw 12 is provided with a and ends. the invention resides in those novel bolt hole 23 similar to the bolt hole 4 and it features of construction, combination and aris also provided with a serrated gripping rangement of parts, all of which will be first face 13 opposing the face 5 of the other jaw. fully described in the following detailed de- The jaw 12 has a recessl l formed between scription, then be particularly pointed out in a pair of lugs 14% to receive loosely the lug the appended claims, reference being had to V 3 when the parts are assembled. The rethe accompanying drawings, in which movable j aw 12' has a fiat face l5 opposing the Figure 1 is aperspective view of the inface2 of the jaw 1. 6 vention in use. The jaws are held in their gripping posi- Figure 2 is a plan view of the invention. tion by a bolt 16 whose head 17 lies against Figure 3 is an inverted plan view of the the shoulder 19 formed by the shank 6 and same. the jaw 1; and is thereby prevented from turn- Figure l is a perspective view of the prining, while a nut 18 serves to draw the jaws cipal element of the connector showing the together, in cooperation with the bolt 17 bendable plate in the open position. A fiat cable 20 is adapted to have the con- Figure 5 is an elevation of the parts shown nector secured to'it, as before intimated, and

in Figure 4 with the flat cable in place after 21 designates the battery having the usual bending down the bendable plate. terminal post 22, the thing that is to be Figure 6 is a cross sectionon the line 66 gripped by the jaws 5 and 13 constituting of Figure 2. my invention.

Figures 7 and S are diagrammatic plan As will be observed from the drawings, views illustrating the clamp head adjusted especially Figures 'Zand 8, fromj'which the to fit minus and plus terminals respectively. serrations have been omitted for purposes-of In the drawings, in which like numerals clear illustration, the gripping faces, of the indicate like parts in all of the figures, 1 repmembers 1 and 12 are curved on two'c'enters to provide large or plus terminal gripping surfaces Qt, and small or minus terminal gripping surfaces 25 to adapt the single gripping head for efficiently clamping on either terminal.

It will be observed that by reason of the fact that the lugs 14m and 3 have a loose engagement. with one another and in-view of the fact that the bolt 16 passes loosely through the bolt holes i, the jaw 12 has a limited amount of universal movement, that is to say, it may rock on the lugs 14% to open and close the jaws, it may rock sidewise to adapt the jaws to straight or tapering posts, and it may swivel on an axis parallel to the bolt 16 to line up the corrugations of the jaws into parallelism, and it may move backwardly and forwardly to shift the centers of curvature of the jaws to accommodate irregular posts or to allow for irregularities in the casting of the jaws. My construction enables the jaws to be die castand assembled without any machine work being done on the same, thereby cutting down the manufacturing costs considerably.

From the foregoing description, taken in connect-ion with the accompanying drawings, it is thought the complete construction, operation and advantages of my invention will be readily'understood by those skilled in the art.

What I claim is:

1. In battery cable connectors, grippers to clamp on a battery post, a shank to receive a flat cable, said shank comprising a relatively rigid plate projecting from one of said grips pers and a bendable plate, said plates being adapted to receive the fiat cable between them, means to secure the cable between said plates, said means comprising teeth on one plate, and recesses in the other plate into which said recesses said teeth project, the cable having holes to pass said teeth, said recesses being chamfered and said teeth be ing adapted to have their ends upset into the chamfered recesses.

2. In battery cable connectors, grippers to clamp on a battery post, a shank to receive a flat cable, said shank comprising a relatively rigid plate projecting from one of said grippers, and a bendable plate, said plates being adapted to receive a fiat cable between them, means to secure thecable between said plates, said means comprising rigid teeth projecting from said relatively rigid plate,

the cable having holes to pass said teeth, said rigid plate having ears to overlap the sides of said bendable plate and said bendable plate having slots extending normal to the line of bend of the bendable plate to slip over said teeth, said bendable plate when bent over said cable being adapted to lie parallel to said relatively rigid plate and between said ears, substantially as shown and described,

CHARLES. E. HOOVER. 

